Leagues Cup Betting Advice
WagerTalk MLS handicapper Nick Borrman presents his Leagues Cup predictions and picks around key round one matches including Inter Miami vs Cruz Azul and FC Cincinnati vs Sporting Kansas City.
Which teams is he looking to pick up points and which will have goal scoring? Read Nick’s betting preview now!
Leagues Cup Expert Predictions
The Leagues Cup is a new competition the pits every MLS and Liga MX team, 47 of them to be exact, into a World Cup-style tournament.
Fifteen groups of three teams will play matches against one another with the top-2 teams in each group moving on the knockout rounds where they will be joined be Los Angeles FC and UANL Tigres, the two most recent champions of each league who automatically progress to the knockout stage.
Both leagues will take an unprecedented month-long break in the middle of their seasons for this competition.
I fully expect all teams to take this tournament seriously as it's their only match reps available to them during this time, and with all teams competing, there is no real advantage to any team when returning to league play, except maybe against those that make a deep run.
Inter Miami vs Cruz Azul | 7/21/23 | 8:00pm ET
Miami +115 | Draw +250 | Cruz Azul +210
Asian Handicap: Miami -0.25 | Total: 2.5
The biggest story, even bigger than this competition itself, is the expected debut of the greatest footballer we have ever seen. Nothing is official until lineups come out, but this is the match Miami has been expecting to debut Lionel Messi.